City of Demons (2025)

With his father dead, Marcus Sullivan steps into power. By night, he plays the drunken Hollywood prince; by morning, he runs the Sullivan crime family and quietly launches his own hunt for a killer. Marcus pulls Lawrence Kay and Lucas Short into an off/the/books investigation that explodes fast. A secret speakeasy turns up a corpse. A hotel room erupts in gunfire. And the killer finally stops hiding.

City of Demons plunges into the grit of 1924 Los Angeles when a powerful figure turns up dead, and the fallout sends ripples through Hollywood’s gilded facade. Lawrence Kay is pulled into the case before dawn, and what he finds hints at a crime far stranger than a simple hit. With tempers rising between the city’s two most dangerous families and pressure mounting from every side, he turns to Lucas Short, a man trying to outrun his past, to help untangle a mystery already shifting beneath their feet. As alliances teeter and secrets stalk every corner, the two detectives step into a storm that could swallow the city whole.